BEGE-143 · December 2025 · English
IGNOU BEGE-143 December 2025 Previous Year Question Paper
UNDERSTANDING POETRY
Structured previous year question paper for BEGE-143, December 2025 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 3 · Sections: 3
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B. A. (GENERAL) ENGLISH DISCIPLINE
(BAG) CORE COURSE (CBCS)
Term-End Examination
December, 2025
BEGE-143 : UNDERSTANDING POETRY
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Answer all questions.
Section—A
Q1.Write short notes on any two of the following (in around 150 words each) : 2×10=20
(a) Significance of colour in The Colour of Truth [ 2 ] BEGE–143
(b) Complexity of home in ‘Postcard from Kashmir’
(c) Donne as a Metaphysical poet
(d) Imagery of grief in ‘A Widow’s Lament in Springtime’
Section—B
Q2.Explain with reference to the context any two of the following (in around 150 words each) : 2×10=20
(a) One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time.
(b) And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep. [ 3 ] BEGE–143
(c) I must tread this forest with wary steps Eyes fixed on the changing times The tables have turned now Protests spark.
(d) I walk out of murders and riots I fall out of smouldering biographies I sleep on a bed of burning languages.
Section—C
Q3.Answer any three of the following questions (in around 250 words each) : 3×20=60
(a) Write a critical analysis of the poem ‘Kubla Khan’.
(b) Discuss ‘The Mountain Woman ’ in relation to its focus on human strength.
(c) Comment on the poet’s treatment of the concept of time in the poem ‘To His Coy Mistress’. [ 4 ] BEGE–143
(d) Discuss Langston Hughes as an African- American poet.
(e) Critically analyse modern Indian English poetry in the post - Independence period with particular reference to either A. K. Ramanujan or Jayanta Mahapatra.